Improved water-motor



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

DANIEL HUN SICKER, OF LAURELTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED WATER-MOTOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,168, dated December 16, 1862.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL HUNsIoKER, of Laurelton, in the county of Union and State of Pennsylvaniahave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Motors or Hydraulic Engines; and I do hereby declare that the same are described and represented in the following specifications and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvements, I will proceed to describe their construction, use, and operation, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is side elevation, with the outside or ease removed to show the interior. Fig. 3 is a top view.

The nature of my invention consists in an endless chain provided with hinged iioats, and working over a rotating block which is turned by it as the chain of iioats are propelled by the water, which endless chain of floats is provided with guiderollers working between guide pieces to keep the endless chain in a proper position while it is propelled by the water.

In the accompanying drawings, A A is a square case, which should be made some higher than the fall of water which is to operate the motor7 and provided with a bottom, B. One side of the case is made open down a proper distance to receive the water, and provided with a gate, c, to shut off and graduate the supply of water which, after operating the motor, escapes through the opening D on the opposite side from which it entered. The sides of the case arevperforated for the shaft E of the rotating block F, which is made square, as shown in Fig. 2, and each corneris cut out, as shown at G, to receive the hinge H of the chain composed of flat links I I, of sheet metal, connected by the rods ,lv J, to which rods the buckets or iioats K K are hinged so as to vibrate to the position shown in the left of Fig. 2 as they pass up, and fall to the position shown at the right in the same figure as they begin to descend, so as to receive the weight of the water which propels the motor. This endless chain, with the floats, hangs on the rotating block F, and turns it, when the water is applied, making a powerful motor to operate such machinery as Inay be connected to the shaft E. 'Ihe rods J J eX- tend beyond the sides of the links I I and receive links L L, made in the form shown, and placed parallel with the edgeand at a right angle to the links I I, and help to hold the water on the iioats as they are carried down by it. The rods J J also extend beyond the links L L and receive the rollers M M, which are held on by the case while they roll around the center piece, N, which guides the rollers and chain and prevents the latter from swinging away from the case and allows the water to pass between the case and the edge of the float as it descends. There are also some side pieces, P P, fastened to the case, to prevent the water from passing down atthe ends ofthe floats K K. These side pieces, P, extend around under the rollers M M, at the bottom, on the curved apron Q. (Shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.)

The rotating block F may be made with three, four, tive, or more sides, as may be preferred.

Some of the advantages of my improved motor are the floats are hinged so as to be easily raised out of the water when running, so as to enable it to run freely in high or back water, with but littleloss of power it' the head of water rises in the same ratio of the tail water 5 and this invention may be used to raise water by reversing the motion and driving it by somo power, in which case the chain should work two links deep in the water.

I believe I have described and represented my improvements in water-Inotors so as to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use them without further experiment or invention, and I will now state what Idesire to secure by Letters Patent-to wit:

What I claim as my invention and improvement in the above described watermotor isl. The endless chain provided with hinged floats and arranged to work over a rotating block, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the endless chain and iioats, the guide'rollers M M and guidepieces N and I) P, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL HUNSICKER. Witnesses J. DENNIS, Jr., D. RowLAND. 

